“I think it turned out pretty good – considering I started with a blank page.”
Steve Martin

Get a Voki now!

Reader's Notebook
You can use your Reader’s Notebook for lots of things:

  • Gather ideas for writing
  • Record, respond, and react to nightly reading by writing or drawing
  • Hold on to memories (whether you think they’re important now or not)
  • Record thoughts, observations, and questions about the world around you
  • Question your reading, writing, or learning
  • Take out your frustrations, fears, anger,or sadness
  • Remember everything that makes you happiest
  • Think about things that matter to you
  • Keep your ideas in one place
  • Practice writing





Keeping a notebook is the single best way I know to survive as a writer. It encourages you to pay attention to your world, inside and out. It serves as a container to keep together all the seeds you gather until you’re ready to plant them. It gives you a quiet place to catch your breath and begin to write.
Ralph Fletcher, Breathing In, Breathing Out: Keeping a Writer’s Notebook (1996, 1)